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Inflation: Understanding its Impact on the Economy

Tom Spencer

For example, the Federal Reserve aims to achieve 2% inflation as an ideal benchmark to avoid its counterpart, deflation. Wes Brooks is an incoming Summer Business Analyst at Cicero Group and an undergraduate studying economics, management, and strategy. For example, a dozen eggs cost around $1.00

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Now Is the Perfect Time to Raise Your Consulting Billing Rate

Successful Independent Consulting

Do some market-rate benchmarking to learn what other consultants are charging, or what clients are paying. Subject: New rate policy for 2019 or Kicking off 2021: Upcoming Changes Dear Joe, As a crazy 2020 comes to a close, I’ve been reviewing the books, client load, and bandwidth to clarify my business goals for next year.

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Do you think culture and collaboration require an office? Think Again

Brimstone Consulting

Source: Optimizing Return-to-Office Strategies With Organizational Network Analysis, Sloan Management Review. As Mark Perna, Author, Speaker, and CEO, puts it : “If we’ve learned anything from 2020, it’s that culture is not contained in a physical location. Rather, culture is nurtured within people.”.

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Friday Fusion: July 10, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Here’s an example of what he does taken from one of his services pages : I’ll make many recommendations, but the four areas we’ll examine the most closely are these: The first is benchmarking. The post Friday Fusion: July 10, 2020 appeared first on Tsavo Neal. How does your firm compare with other firms like yours.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance. Database benchmarks for education and resource prioritization.

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Fed Staff Accidentally Posts Bearish Economic Forecast and Prediction Inflation Would Not Hit 2% by 2020; Upset Over Leaks? Why?

MishTalk

Unintentional Projections One hike in 2015 : The staff expected policymakers would raise their benchmark interest rate, known as the Fed funds rate, enough for it to average 0.35 By the fourth quarter of 2020, they saw the PCE (personal consumption expenditure) inflation index rising 1.97 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015.

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"UberCab" vs. Al Gore' $90 Trillion Plan to Rid World of Cars: Uber CEO Asks Tesla for 500,000 Autonomous Cars in 2020; Peak Cars?

MishTalk

Richard Uber CEO Wants 500,000 Autonomous Cars In 2020 Richard emailed a link to the Green Car Reports article Uber CEO To Tesla: Sell Me Half A Million Autonomous Electric Cars In 2020. If Tesla can build a fully-autonomous car by 2020, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says his company would it. Nor is a precise date of 2020 important.

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